SEEING IS BELIEVING

If anyone doubted that all of your prayers work I hope this next piece of awesome news keeps you going - Jason's right eye has greatly improved!  We were so excited to see him yesterday and once we pulled up I let Carolin know we had just arrived and the next thing we know there is Jason walking out the front door standing tall and walking straight with confidence.  After seeing how much the loss of his peripheral vision in that right eye had been affecting his walking last time we saw him,  we were so happy!  It's been obviously getting better the past week or so and in hopes of this progress continuing they are waiting another week to see the opthomologist to give that eye even more time to heal on it's own.  How cool is that???  With all my heart I truly thank everyone who have been Jason's Prayer Warriors!

We had a good visit and got lots of chatting in.  When I asked if he watched any good shows lately he remembered watching, "Revenge", the night before which was great as it's his short term memory that he is having problems with.  He is really working so hard to improve everything - during that day's PT he had not only leg pressed a good amount of weight but when told he could stop he wanted to keep going.  Go Jason!  Hopefully it will only be another few weeks for the paperwork to be completed and he can start at the Acadia Neuro Rehabilitation which is about 20 minutes or so from the house.  There he will go full time Monday-Friday from 9-3.  When I said to Jason it will be just like a school day he said, "Oh boy."  Oh yes I love every sarcastic comment!  :D

At the end of last week he started telling people he wanted to go to Frederick which was another big moment - in fact David got a suprise phone call from him last Thursday which he started by saying, "Hi Dad this is your son Jason."  David was so thrilled and Jason sounded very enthusiastic through out the phone call.  At one point he asked his Dad if he was going to be home that evening as he wanted to drive down that night.  With his eye improving and continued memory gains that will hopefully be a reality sooner rather than later! 

A few weeks ago I had told everyone about the box O.A.R. had sent for Jason and Brian had delivered to him.  Here is a picture of some of the generous gifts they sent:

Today he had a follow up with his main overall Dr. from Bryn Mawr who was very happy with his progress.  In fact Jason is eating and drinking so well now that he took the PEG tube out of his stomach - Jason is totally tube free at his 10 week mark!

The flyers are up on Jason's Fan Club page on FB for the Ruby's Give Back event going on November 2, 3, and 4th so make sure to print a bunch out for the Frederick location(s) of your choice and mark your calendars for another weekend of no cooking!  (Give them to everyone you know so they can enjoy staying out of the kitchen too!)